I grew up on a farm in a small Romanesque village, Tersnaus. Through my neighbours at the time, the Schurter family, my family got into mountain biking.

However, I only became fascinated by racing at the age of 14, when I surprisingly won the Swiss championship title and was gripped by racing fever.

At the age of 13, I started my Matura in Disentis, where I lived in a boarding school because of the distance to school. After three years, I ventured into a sports high school in Solothurn, where I could better combine sport and school. For the four years I lived there, I also rode in the colours of Bike Team Solothurn. Since graduating from high school, I have been living in Chur and ride for Thömus maxon Swiss Mountainbike Racing.

Apart from professional sport I am very busy with my law studies, which I am completing by distance learning.

You can find all my sporting success here.